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Saving to CSV file always adds quotation marks in OpenOffice

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Mar 15, 20266219 views
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I'm trying to use OpenOffice Calc for editing CSV files with as delimiter. No matter what I do, Calc is insisting on adding quotation marks (") to the strings. If a cell content is number only, it's fine. Is there a way to not let Calc do this? I mean, the TAB is enough for any parser, right?

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Fix for: Saving to CSV file always adds quotation marks in OpenOffice

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Why do you need double quotes? I mean, the TAB is enough for any parser, right? No, it technically isn't! As mentioned in my answer about Excel's CSV format, the Common Format and MIME Type for CSV Files (RFC 4180) specifies that: … each field may o…

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